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Huang Jianhua's given name means "building China," but the sports promoter, who goes by the English name Ken, may be more interested in building U.S. basketball. According to basketball sources, the Chinese-born Huang is brokering a deal between the Cleveland Cavaliers and a Hong Kong real estate and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will China Play Ball with the Cleveland Cavaliers? | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

There was just one problem. Though prices rose by as much as 400% during the boom years, few people wanted the finished properties they had purchased - usually off plan, and often well before the first spadeful of earth had been turned. The market was driven by speculators, interested only in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubai's Sand Castles | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

For non-food companies like South Korea's LG and Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia, targeting Muslims is also big business. LG offers an application to help users find the direction of Mecca, while Nokia has free downloadable recitations from the Koran and maps showing the locations of major mosques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halal: Buying Muslim | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

The major sticking point was Ukraine's place in the gas supply chain between Russia and Europe, and the country's role in the January gas war. In the coming months, Ukraine will have to spend $4 billion to buy the 19.5 billion cubic meters of gas it requires to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Gas Deal at the E.U.-Russia Summit | 5/23/2009 | See Source »

By the seventh inning the 2-to-1 game had turned into a 9-to-1 game. I forget who was winning. It may have been the team of scrappy overachievers with nine players who make more than $13 million per year. The math I was interested in was $112...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Beat the Yankees with Your Stomach | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

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